Source: Per post at 18th Battalion Facebook Group by Allan Miller.
Family Search: When Lance-Corporal James Fletcher Rickeard was born on 25 January 1889, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom, his father, Simon Lawer Rickeard, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Louisa Parry, was 25. He married Caroline Hippern on 2 May 1914, in Ridgetown, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Ridgetown, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1915, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as lineman, bell telephone in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 23 January 1965, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 75, and was buried in Oldcastle, Tecumseh, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 